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Forecast errors for inflation decline monotonically with both verbal and quantitative IQ in a large and representative … male population. Within individuals, inflation expectations and perceptions are autocorrelated only for men above the median …' knowledge of the concept of inflation is low; they associate inflation with concrete goods and services instead of abstract …
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Many consumers below the top of the distribution of a representative population by cognitive abilities barely react to monetary and fiscal policies that aim to stimulate consumption and borrowing, even when they are financially unconstrained and despite substantial debt capacity. Differences in...
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Communication targeting households and firms has become a stand-alone policy tool of many central banks. But which forms of communication, if any, can reach ordinary people and manage their economic expectations effectively? In a large-scale randomized control trial, we show that communication...
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Many consumers below the top of the distribution of a representative population by cognitive abilities barely react to monetary and fiscal policies that aim to stimulate consumption and borrowing, even when they are financially unconstrained and despite substantial debt capacity. Differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213014
Communication targeting households and firms has become a stand-alone policy tool of many central banks. But which forms of communication, if any, can reach ordinary people and manage their economic expectations effectively? In a large-scale randomized control trial, we show that communication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012490915
) display 50% lower forecast errors for inflation than other men. The inflation expectations and perceptions of high-IQ men, but … values. In terms of choice, only high-IQ men increase their propensity to consume when expecting higher inflation as the …
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) - do not change their consumption propensities with their inflation expectations. Low-IQ men are also less than half as …
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Communication targeting households and firms has become a stand-alone policy tool of many central banks. But which forms of communication, if any, can reach ordinary people and manage their economic expectations effectively? In a large-scale randomized control trial, we show that communication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314047
We document that a large fraction of a representative population of men—those below the top of the distribution by cognitive abilities (IQ)—barely reacts to measures of monetary and fiscal policy that aim at influencing their leverage and durable spending decisions. To the contrary, high-IQ...
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Forecast errors for inflation decline monotonically with both verbal and quantitative IQ in a large and representative … male population. Within individuals, inflation expectations and perceptions are autocorrelated only for men above the …-IQ individuals' knowledge of the concept of inflation is low; they associate inflation with concrete goods and services instead of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863218